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Healthy Food Recipes - Carrot Chutney!

Posted on: 19/Dec/2014 10:19:08 AM
Ingredients:
  • Carrot 250 gram
  • Onion 2 nos
  • Tomato 3 nos
  • Red chilli 3 nos
  • Urad Dal 3 spoons
  • Bengal gram 2 spoons
  • Curry leaves a few
  • Coriander leaves a few
  • Cumin seeds spoon
  • Mustard seeds spoon
  • Coconut- a small piece
  • Tamarind a small lemon size (optional)
  • Oil 6 spoons
  • Asafetida a pinch
Method:
  • Wash the carrot and remove its skin. Chop it into very small even sized pieces.
  • Same way chop onion and tomato and set aside.



  • Heat pan with 1 spoon of oil and saut the urad dal, Bengal gram and dry red chilli separately and fry them well. Remove it in a plate. 



  • Heat the same pan with 4 spoons of oil and add curry leaves, coriander leaves, garlic, chopped onion and carrot one after the other.
  • Saut the mix well for about 5 to 10 minutes and then tomatoes to it. Saut it well until the raw smell leaves and tomatoes become mushy. 



  • Then remove it in a plate and allow it to cool for some time.
  • Grind the roasted ingredients in step 3 using a mixer and add it to the mixer of onion and carrot and grind well.



  • Add salt to taste and if needed you can add tamarind and grind well.
  • Heat the pan with 1 spoon of oil and add cumin and mustard seeds and asafoetida for tempering and put it on top of the chutney.



  • Serve it hot along with either dosai or idli or chapatti.
Note:
  • If you want sourer taste, then you can add tamarind, else the sour taste in tomato is enough for the dish, no need to add tamarind.
  • Both curry leaves and coriander leaves is good for health, thus add it more.
  • This is the apt way of giving vegetables to children who hate vegetables without their knowledge.
  • Peel the skin of the carrot and wash it using the tap water, so as to make it free from germs.
Health Benefits of Carrot:
  • Aids in preventing stroke
  • It purifies the body toxins
  • Averts infection and cancer
  • Augments the eye vision 
  • Augments the skin shiny
  • Protect from heart diseases
  • Lessens blood pressure
  • Boost body immune system
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath